scholarly journals Classification by a stacking model using CNN features for COVID-19 infection diagnosis

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-16
Author(s):  
Yavuz Selim Taspinar ◽  
Ilkay Cinar ◽  
Murat Koklu

Affecting millions of people all over the world, the COVID-19 pandemic has caused the death of hundreds of thousands of people since its beginning. Examinations also found that even if the COVID-19 patients initially survived the coronavirus, pneumonia left behind by the virus may still cause severe diseases resulting in organ failure and therefore death in the future. The aim of this study is to classify COVID-19, normal and viral pneumonia using the chest X-ray images with machine learning methods. A total of 3,486 chest X-ray images from three classes were first classified by three single machine learning models including the support vector machine (SVM), logistics regression (LR), artificial neural network (ANN) models, and then by a stacking model that was created by combining these 3 single models. Several performance evaluation indices including recall, precision, F-score, and accuracy were computed to evaluate and compare classification performance of 3 single four models and the final stacking model used in the study. As a result of the evaluations, the models namely, SVM, ANN, LR, and stacking, achieved 90.2%, 96.2%, 96.7%, and 96.9%classification accuracy, respectively. The study results indicate that the proposed stacking model is a fast and inexpensive method for assisting COVID-19 diagnosis, which can have potential to assist physicians and nurses to better and more efficiently diagnose COVID-19 infection cases in the busy clinical environment.

Glass Industry is considered one of the most important industries in the world. The Glass is used everywhere, from water bottles to X-Ray and Gamma Rays protection. This is a non-crystalline, amorphous solid that is most often transparent. There are lots of uses of glass, and during investigation in a crime scene, the investigators need to know what is type of glass in a scene. To find out the type of glass, we will use the online dataset and machine learning to solve the above problem. We will be using ML algorithms such as Artificial Neural Network (ANN), K-nearest neighbors (KNN) algorithm, Support Vector Machine (SVM) algorithm, Random Forest algorithm, and Logistic Regression algorithm. By comparing all the algorithm Random Forest did the best in glass classification.


2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mazin Mohammed ◽  
Karrar Hameed Abdulkareem ◽  
Mashael S. Maashi ◽  
Salama A. Mostafa A. Mostafa ◽  
Abdullah Baz ◽  
...  

BACKGROUND In most recent times, global concern has been caused by a coronavirus (COVID19), which is considered a global health threat due to its rapid spread across the globe. Machine learning (ML) is a computational method that can be used to automatically learn from experience and improve the accuracy of predictions. OBJECTIVE In this study, the use of machine learning has been applied to Coronavirus dataset of 50 X-ray images to enable the development of directions and detection modalities with risk causes.The dataset contains a wide range of samples of COVID-19 cases alongside SARS, MERS, and ARDS. The experiment was carried out using a total of 50 X-ray images, out of which 25 images were that of positive COVIDE-19 cases, while the other 25 were normal cases. METHODS An orange tool has been used for data manipulation. To be able to classify patients as carriers of Coronavirus and non-Coronavirus carriers, this tool has been employed in developing and analysing seven types of predictive models. Models such as , artificial neural network (ANN), support vector machine (SVM), linear kernel and radial basis function (RBF), k-nearest neighbour (k-NN), Decision Tree (DT), and CN2 rule inducer were used in this study.Furthermore, the standard InceptionV3 model has been used for feature extraction target. RESULTS The various machine learning techniques that have been trained on coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) dataset with improved ML techniques parameters. The data set was divided into two parts, which are training and testing. The model was trained using 70% of the dataset, while the remaining 30% was used to test the model. The results show that the improved SVM achieved a F1 of 97% and an accuracy of 98%. CONCLUSIONS :. In this study, seven models have been developed to aid the detection of coronavirus. In such cases, the learning performance can be improved through knowledge transfer, whereby time-consuming data labelling efforts are not required.the evaluations of all the models are done in terms of different parameters. it can be concluded that all the models performed well, but the SVM demonstrated the best result for accuracy metric. Future work will compare classical approaches with deep learning ones and try to obtain better results. CLINICALTRIAL None


2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thanakorn Poomkur ◽  
Thakerng Wongsirichot

The coronavirus disease of 2019 (COVID-19) has been declared a pandemic and has raised worldwide concern. Lung inflammation and respiratory failure are commonly observed in moderate-to-severe cases. Chest X-ray imaging is compulsory for diagnosis, and interpretation is commonly performed by skilled medical specialists. Many studies have been conducted using machine learning approaches such as Deep Learning (DL) with acceptable accuracy. However, other dimensions such as computational time were less discussed. Thus, our work is motivated to design anew computer-aided diagnosis (CADx) tool for identifying chest X-ray images of COVID-19 infection using machine learning techniques including Decision Tree (DT), Support Vector Machine (SVM), and Neural Networks (NNs). Our work is designed with the concept of multi-layer classification architecture and performs with minimal computational time and acceptable classification results. First, image segmentation, image enhancement and feature extraction techniques are performed. Second, machine learning techniques are selected based on classification performance. Finally, selected machine learning techniques are assembled into a multi-layer hybrid classification model for COVID-19 (MLHC-COVID-19). Specifically, the MLHC-COVID-19 consists of two layers, Layer I: Healthy and Unhealthy; Layer II: COVID-19 and non-COVID-19.


2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mahbubunnabi Tamal ◽  
Maha Alshammari ◽  
Meernah Alabdullah ◽  
Rana Hourani ◽  
Hossain Abu Alola ◽  
...  

ABSTRACTEarly diagnosis of COVID-19 is considered the first key action to prevent spread of the virus. Currently, reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) is considered as a gold standard point-of-care diagnostic tool. However, several limitations of RT-PCR have been identified, e.g., low sensitivity, cost, long delay in getting results and the need of a professional technician to collect samples. On the other hand, chest X-ray (CXR) is routinely used as a cost-effective diagnostic test for diagnosis and monitoring different respiratory abnormalities and is currently being used as a discriminating tool for COVID-19. However, visual assessment of CXR is not able to distinguish COVID-19 from other lung conditions. Several machine learning algorithms have been proposed to detect COVID-19 directly from CXR images with reasonably good accuracy on a data set that was randomly split into two subsets for training and test. Since these methods require a huge number of images for training, data augmentation with geometric transformation was applied to increase the number of images. It is highly likely that the images of the same patients are present in both the training and test sets resulting in higher accuracies in detection of COVID-19. It is, therefore, vital to assess the performance of COVID-19 detection algorithm on an independent data set with different degrees of the disease before being employed for clinical settings. On the other hand, machine learning techniques that depend on handcrafted features extraction and selection approaches can be trained with smaller data set. The features can also be analyzed separately for various lung conditions. Radiomics features are such kind of handcrafted features that represent heterogeneous appearance of the lung on CXR quantitatively and can be used to distinguish COVID-19 from other lung conditions. Based on this hypothesis, a machine learning based technique is proposed here that is trained on a set of suitable radiomics features (71 features) to detect COVID-19. It is found that Support Vector Machine (SVM) and Ensemble Bagging Model Trees (EBM) trained on these 71 radiomics features can distinguish between COVID-19 and other diseases with an overall sensitivity of 99.6% and 87.8% and specificity of 85% and 97% respectively. Though the performance is comparable for both methods, EBM is more robust across severity levels. Severity, in this case, was scored between 0 to 4 by two experienced radiologists for each lung segment of each CXR image represents the degree of severity of the disease. For the case of 0 severity, sensitivity and specificity of the EBM method are 91.7% and 100% respectively indicating that there are certain radiomics pattern that are not visibly distinguishable. Since the proposed method does not require any manual intervention (e.g., sample collection etc.), it can be integrated with any standard X-ray reporting system to be used as an efficient, cost-effective and rapid early diagnosis device. It can also be deployed in places where quick results of the COVID-19 test are required, e.g., airports, seaports, hospitals, health clinics, etc.


2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mohammad Ali Abbasa ◽  
Syed Usama Khalid Bukhari ◽  
Syed Khuzaima Arssalan Bokhari ◽  
manal niazi

AbstractBackgroundPneumonia is a leading cause of morbidity and mortality worldwide, particularly among the developing nations. Pneumonia is the most common cause of death in children due to infectious etiology. Early and accurate Pneumonia diagnosis could play a vital role in reducing morbidity and mortality associated with this ailment. In this regard, the application of a new hybrid machine learning vision-based model may be a useful adjunct tool that can predict Pneumonia from chest X-ray (CXR) images.Aim & Objectivewe aimed to assess the diagnostic accuracy of hybrid machine learning vision-based model for the diagnosis of Pneumonia by evaluating chest X-ray (CXR) imagesMaterials & MethodsA total of five thousand eight hundred and fifty-six digital X-ray images of children from ages one to five were obtained from the Chest X-Ray Pneumonia dataset using the Kaggle site. The dataset contains fifteen hundred and eighty-three digital X-ray images categorized as normal, where four thousand two hundred and seventy-three digital X-ray images are categorized as Pneumonia by an expert clinician. In this research project, a new hybrid machine learning vision-based model has been evaluated that can predict Pneumonia from chest X-ray (CXR) images. The proposed model is a hybrid of convolutional neural network and tree base algorithms (random forest and light gradient boosting machine). In this study, a hybrid architecture with four variations and two variations of ResNet architecture are employed, and a comparison is made between them.ResultsIn the present study, the analysis of digital X-ray images by four variations of hybrid architecture RN-18 RF, RN-18 LGBM, RN-34 RF, and RN-34 LGBM, along with two variations of ResNet architecture, ResNet-18 and ResNet-30 have revealed the diagnostic accuracy of 97.78%, 96.42%, 97.1%,96.59%, 95.05%, and 95.05%, respectively.DiscussionThe analysis of the present study results revealed more than 95% diagnostic accuracy for the diagnosis of Pneumonia by evaluating chest x-ray images of children with the help of four variations of hybrid architectures and two variations of ResNet architectures. Our findings are in accordance with the other published study in which the author used the deep learning algorithm Chex-Net with 121 layers.ConclusionThe hybrid machine learning vision-based model is a useful tool for the assessment of chest x rays of children for the diagnosis of Pneumonia.


2021 ◽  
pp. 2099-2109
Author(s):  
Maad M. Mijwil

COVID-19 (Coronavirus disease-2019), commonly called Coronavirus or CoV, is a dangerous disease caused by the SARS-CoV-2 virus. It is one of the most widespread zoonotic diseases around the world, which started from one of the wet markets in Wuhan city. Its symptoms are similar to those of the common flu, including cough, fever, muscle pain, shortness of breath, and fatigue. This article suggests implementing machine learning techniques (Random Forest, Logistic Regression, Naïve Bayes, Support Vector Machine) by Python to classify a series of chest X-ray images that include viral pneumonia, COVID-19, and healthy (Not infected) cases in humans. The study includes more than 1400 images that are collected from the Kaggle platform. The experimental outcomes of this study confirmed that the supported vector machine technique has high accuracy and excellent performance in the classification of the disease, as reflected by values of 91.8% accuracy, 91.7% sensitivity, 95.9% specificity, 91.8% F1-score, and 97.6% AUC.


Scientifica ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 ◽  
pp. 1-20
Author(s):  
Aicha Moumni ◽  
Abderrahman Lahrouni

The monitoring of cultivated crops and the types of different land covers is a relevant environmental and economic issue for agricultural lands management and crop yield prediction. In this context, this paper aims to use and evaluate the contribution of multisensors classification based on machine learning classifiers to crop-type identification in a semiarid area of Morocco. It is a very heterogeneous zone characterized by mixed crops (tree crops with annual crops, same crop with different phenological states during the same agricultural season, crop rotation, etc.). Therefore, such heterogeneity made the crop-type discrimination more complicated. To overcome these challenges, the present work is the first study in this area which used the fusion of high spatiotemporal resolution Sentinel-1 and Sentinel-2 satellite images for land use and land cover mapping. Three machine learning classifier algorithms, artificial neural network (ANN), support vector machine (SVM), and maximum likelihood (ML), were applied to identify and map crop types in irrigated perimeter. In situ observations of the year 2018, for the R3 perimeter of Haouz plain in central Morocco, were used with satellite data of the same year to perform this work. The results showed that combined images acquired in C-band and the optical range improved clearly the crop-type classification performance (overall accuracy = 89%; Kappa = 0.85) compared to the classification results of optical or SAR data alone.


2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ali El Bilali ◽  
Mohammed Moukhliss ◽  
Abdeslam Taleb ◽  
Ayoub Nafii ◽  
Bahija Alabjah ◽  
...  

Abstract Prediction-based approaches are valuable in assessing dam safeties, as they allow comparing the actual measurements with the projected values to detect anomalies early. For two decades, machine learning (ML) algorithms have been developed and improved to help in accurately predicting the dam behaviors. However, the generalization ability (GA) of these models is not analyzed enough in dam engineering. In this study, the Multiple Linear Regression (MLR), Artificial Neural Network (ANN), Support Vector Regression (SVR), and Adaptive Boosting (AdaBoost) models with nonlinear autoregressive exogenous inputs (NARX) are evaluated and compared with the conventional Hydrostatic Seasonal Time (HST) model for predicting the daily pore water pressure in an embankment Dam. Moreover, we proposed a classification method of the model into four categories ‘’Perfect’’, ‘’Excellent’’, ‘’Good’’, and ‘’Poor’’ according to the GA. Results showed that, except for the AdaBoost, the other ML models outperformed the traditional statistical approach (HST) in terms of prediction accuracy as well as the GA. Overall; the study results provide new insights in enhancing the monitoring processes and dam safeties by detecting the anomalies early through the measurements and the selection of the best fitted-models.


2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nalika Ulapane ◽  
Karthick Thiyagarajan ◽  
sarath kodagoda

<div>Classification has become a vital task in modern machine learning and Artificial Intelligence applications, including smart sensing. Numerous machine learning techniques are available to perform classification. Similarly, numerous practices, such as feature selection (i.e., selection of a subset of descriptor variables that optimally describe the output), are available to improve classifier performance. In this paper, we consider the case of a given supervised learning classification task that has to be performed making use of continuous-valued features. It is assumed that an optimal subset of features has already been selected. Therefore, no further feature reduction, or feature addition, is to be carried out. Then, we attempt to improve the classification performance by passing the given feature set through a transformation that produces a new feature set which we have named the “Binary Spectrum”. Via a case study example done on some Pulsed Eddy Current sensor data captured from an infrastructure monitoring task, we demonstrate how the classification accuracy of a Support Vector Machine (SVM) classifier increases through the use of this Binary Spectrum feature, indicating the feature transformation’s potential for broader usage.</div><div><br></div>


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